Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bill Hsu (22 Lists)



Never Have I Ever by Isabel YapThe Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
2021 Horror Releases
172 books — 235 voters
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham JonesThe Illness Lesson by Clare BeamsAnd I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
587 books — 1,241 voters

Windeye by Brian EvensonMore Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. JamesCold Hand in Mine by Robert AickmanDark Companions by Ramsey CampbellRingstones and Other Curious Tales by Sarban
The Essential Short Story Collections of Weird and Horror Fiction
104 books — 36 voters
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonUbu Roi by Alfred JarryNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
126 books — 104 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonA Collapse of Horses by Brian EvensonHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoCold Hand in Mine by Robert AickmanSong for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
Unsettling Fictions: Short Stories that Live Beneath the Skin
144 books — 33 voters
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-GarciaFound Audio by N.J. CampbellThe Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas RombesMemento Mori by Brian Hauser
Vintage media in dark fiction
21 books — 6 voters

The New Black by Richard ThomasShadows & Tall Trees 7 by Michael KellyYear's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5 by Robert Shearman
Best Horror Anthologies
453 books — 535 voters
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder by Lawrence WeschlerEncyclopedia Anatomica by Monika Von DuringDiseases in Wax by Thomas SchnalkeLe Musée Des Moulages De L'hôpital Saint Louis by Gérard TillesLES MUSEES DE MEDECINE by A Preciser
Cabinets of Curiosities, Wunderkammer and Museums of Marvels - non-fiction
91 books — 13 voters

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora CarringtonVampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen RussellThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonFurnace by Livia LlewellynPretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Female-Authored Weird Fiction
464 books — 179 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiInfinite Jest by David Foster WallacePale Fire by Vladimir NabokovLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters

Stories in the Worst Way by Garielle LutzMarsupial by in8 iDFat Skeletons by Ursule MolinaroScorch Atlas by Blake ButlerSpeaking to Skull Kings and Other Stories by Emily B. Cataneo
The Sentence is a Lonely Place
17 books — 5 voters
The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2 by Jonathan HickmanCompulsory Games by Robert Aickman
Horror to look forward to in 2018
81 books — 30 voters

Asterios Polyp by David MazzucchelliThe Death-Ray by Daniel ClowesFrom Hell by Alan MooreStuck Rubber Baby by Howard CruseSafari Honeymoon by Jesse Jacobs
Top 250 Graphic Novels: Part One
135 books — 13 voters
Pixy by Max AnderssonThe Squirrel Machine by Hans RickheitBlack Hole by Charles BurnsLike a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel ClowesThe Biologic Show, Number by Al Columbia
Surreal comics (with tinges of horror and humour)
160 books — 70 voters

The Magic Toyshop by Angela CarterNo and Bunraku by Donald KeeneBackstage at Bunraku by Barbara C. AdachiThe Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch by Neil GaimanPinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover
Puppets
50 books — 14 voters
The City & The City by China MiévilleLord of Light by Roger ZelaznyKraken by China MiévilleHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCreatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
883 books — 486 voters

My Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. SeidlingerPainted Devils by Robert AickmanThe City & the City by China MiévilleCold Hand in Mine by Robert AickmanVALIS by Philip K. Dick
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,092 voters
Fugue State by Brian EvensonMira Corpora by Jeff JacksonThe Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Sto... by Reggie OliverDuplex by Kathryn Davis
Dark Literature
270 books — 175 voters

Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoBlow-Up and Other Stories by Julio CortázarSwamplandia! by Karen RussellThe Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,515 voters
Mother Box and Other Tales by Sarah BlackmanSheeper by Irving RosenthalArtistes et mortels by Michel; Faye LemireDiseases in Wax by Thomas SchnalkeConversations with the Dead by Danny Lyon
Favorite books with fewer than 25 ratings
68 books — 6 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyBefore and Afterlives by Christopher BarzakThe Passion of New Eve by Angela Carterboneyard by Stephen BeachyHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Queer Fantastika
106 books — 32 voters
Scorch Atlas by Blake ButlerShort Dark Oracles by Sara LevineMy Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. SeidlingerThe Hangman's Ritual by Nick AntoscaProbably Monsters by Ray Cluley
Great Small Press Books and Chapbooks
255 books — 182 voters